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S.  R.  A.— B.  S  45. 


Issued  January  It;,  1922 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU    OF    BIOLOGICAL    SURVEY. 
E.  W.  Nelson,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


REGULATIONS    FOR   THE   PROTECTION    OF    LAND    FUR-BEARING 
ANIMALS  IN  ALASKA. 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture by  that  portion  of  the  act  of  May  31,  1920,  entitled  "An  act 
making  appropriations  for  the  Department  of  Agriculture  for  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  80,  1921"  (41  Stat.,  694,  at  pp.  710-717), 
conferring  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  the  powers  and  duties 
theretofore  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Commerce,  by  law, 
proclamations,  or  Executive  orders,  with  respect  to  any  mink,  marten, 
beaver,  land  otter,  muskrat,  fox,  wolf,  wolverine,  weasel,  or  other 
land  fur-bearing  animal  in  Alaska,  regulation  4  of  the  regulations 
for  the  protection  of  land  fur-bearing  animals  in  Alaska,  effective 
September  1,  1921,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as  follows: 

REGULATION    4.— ARTIFICIAL    LIGHTS   AND    SHOOTING. 

The  killing  of  any  of  (lie  following  land  fur-bearing  animals,  viz.,  white  fox, 
blue  fox,  red  fox,  cross  fox.  black  or  silver  fox,  mink,  marten  (American  sable), 
weasel  (ermine),  otter  (land),  muskrat,  and  beaver  by  use  of  ;i  jack  or  pit 
lamp  or  any  other  artificial  light,  or  by  shooting  with  either  a  rifle,  shotgun, 
or  pistol,  is  prohibited  at  all  limes;  provided,  that  it  shall  not  be  unlawful  for 
natives  to  kill  the  land  fur-bearing  animals  mimed  in  this  regulation  during 
the  respective  open  seasons  therefor  by  shooting  within  the  boundaries  of  the 
Aleutian  Islands  Reservation  and  on  the  Alaska  Peninsula  easl  to  Becharof 
Lake. 

In  testimony  whereof, I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
seal  of  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be  affixed 
in  the  City  of  Washington  this  6th  day  of  January,  L922. 

[seal.]  ■— HpBNRv  C.  Wallace, 

Secretary  of  A  qr [culture. 

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